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Speaker: Well, hello, and welcome back to another episode of Forever Rich Podcast, featuring the always just, I don't know, like the Notre Dame of predictions.
Speaker: Broken clock.
Speaker: The king of the broken clocks, A.V.
Speaker: Guapo, and the guy on the other side who'll be trying to act like he know football, but don't be really winning on our bets.
Speaker: What are you talking about?
Speaker: I won my bets.
Speaker: The Steelers lost.
Speaker: We broke even again.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: A broken clock is right twice a day.
Speaker: You was only right 50% of the time.
Speaker: I'm breaking my funk.
Speaker: I don't know what's going on with the Niners.
Speaker: That's the only bad part.
Speaker: They've been exposed.
Speaker: Nah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Nah.
Speaker: They've been exposed.
Speaker: It's all about their running game.
Speaker: If they don't have that, then you put their day.
Speaker: They tend to always look.
Speaker: 49ers have always had this problem.
Speaker: They always have a good offense, a good defense, but just always an average quarterback or below average, depending.
Speaker: I think Brock Purdy is average.
Speaker: I thought Jimmy Garoppolo was average.
Speaker: And who's the guy they got going right now while Purdy's out?
Speaker: I don't even know his name.
Speaker: Below average.
Speaker: Brock Purdy played last game.
Speaker: What are you talking about?
Speaker: He was out the week before.
Speaker: I knew that.
Speaker: He left the game because he had concussion, but he played last week.
Speaker: When you expose the average quarterback, they don't have a strong... They're not the Kansas City Chiefs where you got Mahomes.
Speaker: They can throw a...
Speaker: 49-yard pass off one.
Speaker: What are you talking about?
Speaker: Did you see last week they lost to the Broncos?
Speaker: They let Russ cook.
Speaker: All that shit you'd be talking about, Russ.
Speaker: Russ was cooking.
Speaker: One good game in four years.
Speaker: They have not beat the Kansas City Chiefs, I want to say, since 2015.
Speaker: And I think, come on now, Patrick Mahomes owns the AFC West, and they look hot garbage.
Speaker: So it's any given Sunday.
Speaker: I'll give Patrick Holmes a pass.
Speaker: Oh, you can give him a pass.
Speaker: He's proven, no, he's just proven to be elite.
Speaker: You know, everybody has a bad game.
Speaker: But what I'm saying is that if you're good, you'll have more good games than you'll have bad.
Speaker: If you're bad, you're going to have more bad games than you have good.
Speaker: So that's why I'm like, people hop on the bad wagon when one bad player goes on like a little streak where they have a couple of good games.
Speaker: But overall, if your overall body of work is negative,
Speaker: That says you're not a good quarterback.
Speaker: Russ is weird because he had a lot of good years in Seattle, and then these last three years have been awful for him.
Speaker: So I don't know if it's the culture change or is it Russ being exposed.
Speaker: That one's a little different.
Speaker: For the night...
Speaker: For the Niners, though, they don't have Debo Samuels.
Speaker: He's hurt.
Speaker: And then they don't have Trent Williams, who's their blindside tackle.
Speaker: So, I mean, those are two key pieces in a game.
Speaker: That's just like, I guarantee if motherfucking Patrick Mahomes loses Travis Kelsey, knock on wood, because I think I have him on my fantasy team.
Speaker: But if they lose Travis Kelsey, Patrick Mahomes, that team is, that offense is going to be horrible.
Speaker: It's not going to be as good, but that's true.
Speaker: But
Speaker: Patrick Mahomes will still be Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker: He doesn't have the receivers to do.
Speaker: They're horrible at receiving right now.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: He still puts up 4,500 yards even after Tyreek left.
Speaker: He's throwing interceptions left and right now and he's fumbling the ball.
Speaker: Trust me, I have him as a fantasy quarterback and I'm not
Speaker: I was very upset because I took him number one overall, stupidly.
Speaker: I will even admit that, stupidly.
Speaker: I don't think it's true.
Speaker: He's not producing the way that he was last year.
Speaker: Yeah, I mean, it's a down year, but a down year for Pax from Mahomes is still a good year.
Speaker: When you go from 5,050 to like 44, let's say 4,540 touchdowns, that's still really good.
Speaker: It's a decent year.
Speaker: I'm saying find me more quarterbacks are throwing 4,000 yards.
Speaker: Maybe Jason Allen.
Speaker: I'm pretty sure.
Speaker: Jill Burrow.
Speaker: That's three out of what?
Speaker: 32.
Speaker: Out of Sandy or LA.
Speaker: Herbert Herbert.
Speaker: He ain't throwing 4,000.
Speaker: Yeah, he has.
Speaker: Let me look it up.
Speaker: Go ahead and Google it.
Speaker: And then two is on pace right now to do that.
Speaker: That's five.
Speaker: I got five.
Speaker: Well, if Aaron Rodgers was kicking and screaming, he's still... That would be six, but he's out.
Speaker: And...
Speaker: I think that's close to it.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: He threw for $47,000.
Speaker: Yeah, I know what I'd be talking about.
Speaker: Just because you won a couple of bets on some damn games, I mean, I don't know how to talk.
Speaker: I don't know football.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: I'll give you a pass.
Speaker: But anyway, how was your week?
Speaker: You took the words right out of my mouth.
Speaker: My week was good.
Speaker: It's gotten a little chilly here in Florida.
Speaker: So, you know, I had to bust out some of the jackets, you know, sweater wetter.
Speaker: But it's just been a regular week.
Speaker: There really wasn't anything too much of prevalence this upcoming week.
Speaker: Just chugging closer to the holidays.
Speaker: Thanksgiving is right around the corner.
Speaker: Got Veterans Day next week.
Speaker: So we got a lot of stuff coming up.
Speaker: I don't know if you get Veterans Day off, but
Speaker: That's a staple holiday for us.
Speaker: Free food.
Speaker: It's like pre-Pree Thanksgiving.
Speaker: But other than that, man, it's been quiet.
Speaker: I don't have anything of prevalence to say.
Speaker: Are y'all staying there for Thanksgiving or are y'all going home?
Speaker: We're staying here.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: We got just some more wedding stuff to tie up and other stuff.
Speaker: Moving.
Speaker: Because she's moving in here.
Speaker: So, yeah.
Speaker: Got to do some stuff.
Speaker: So, maybe I have to cook my own turkey, David.
Speaker: So, if y'all see me on Instagram in my chef outfit, y'all already know what's going down.
Speaker: Your boy cook it.
Speaker: It's funny you mentioned that because my brother's like, uh, starting to like show him cooking and shit like that.
Speaker: So he was doing like this little, his girl, his wife was, uh,
Speaker: was filming him cooking and shit.
Speaker: So it kind of reminded me of that when you were like, Oh, if you see me on Instagram cooking, I was like, Oh, God damn.
Speaker: AB cooking show.
Speaker: Uh, for me, week, week was pretty good.
Speaker: It's right now.
Speaker: It's, it's prepping up for baby girl.
Speaker: Um, so, um,
Speaker: We got 18 more days till her due date.
Speaker: I think almost 17 now.
Speaker: And the crazy part is her due date's the day before Thanksgiving.
Speaker: So we ain't going... We definitely ain't going nowhere for Thanksgiving.
Speaker: If we're able to...
Speaker: even go anywhere for Thanksgiving.
Speaker: It's probably gonna be like at a relative's house or whatever.
Speaker: I ain't cooking.
Speaker: I did that.
Speaker: I think I didn't the last time I cooked and I cooked the entire meal, bro.
Speaker: Tire meal was the year Mars was born.
Speaker: So it was like three years ago, bro.
Speaker: I started at like six o'clock in the morning and I didn't finish until 6 p.m.
Speaker: I was I was through.
Speaker: I was like, man, fuck this.
Speaker: I was like, y'all motherfuckers is cleaning because I was like, yeah, like I don't think anybody people are maybe brought some like dinner rolls or whatever.
Speaker: So I cooked the turkey.
Speaker: I did all like the sides, the mashed potatoes, the sweet potato or the sweet potatoes, candy yams, green beans.
Speaker: I did.
Speaker: I did the whole shebang bang and.
Speaker: I think the only thing my mom brought Mac and cheese.
Speaker: Cause I ain't fucking, I ain't fucking up Mac and cheese.
Speaker: Like, you know?
Speaker: So, and I think people else brought dinner rolls and I was like,
Speaker: After it's said and done, I was like, y'all got the dishes because I'm not touching a damn pot, pan, or anything.
Speaker: I was like, y'all on your own.
Speaker: I was like, I was the first one up cooked while everybody else sat on their ass and did shit.
Speaker: But I'm super excited.
Speaker: It's rough to cook all the food.
Speaker: I cooked for myself in 2020 when I first moved down here.
Speaker: My COVID was still kind of bad, so I didn't end up going home.
Speaker: And so I had to cook all my own food here, and I was like,
Speaker: man.
Speaker: Well, not only was it like just you stand up, you're cooking all day, but I, I kind of offset my stuff.
Speaker: Cause I was like, I don't got nobody coming over here.
Speaker: So like I did the bag Turkey, like, you know how you get the Turkey in the bag and you can just throw it in the oven.
Speaker: I did that, but, uh, I don't, you guys probably don't have Publix, but Publix here in Florida, they had like sides already pre-made.
Speaker: All you had to do was just throw them in the
Speaker: in the oven, like macaroni and cheese stuffing.
Speaker: So I had like, I got two of those.
Speaker: I got some mac and cheese.
Speaker: I mean, it wasn't even, it was pretty good too.
Speaker: I was like actually pretty surprised.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: The grocery stores out here, H-E-B, they do that where they do like sides and like, or even like meal preps.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: A little section where you can just pick up like a little meal prep thing.
Speaker: You just throw in the oven and shit.
Speaker: So yeah, but I did it all.
Speaker: I was like, oh, you know, everybody coming down for Thanksgiving.
Speaker: Let me, let your boy host it.
Speaker: So I was like, but I was like,
Speaker: Not this year.
Speaker: Maybe not even next year.
Speaker: I might, but it just depends.
Speaker: Everybody bringing sides, at least.
Speaker: I was like, I'll cook a bird, but I ain't sitting there fucking making all these sides again and shit.
Speaker: Yeah, that's rough.
Speaker: It's not fun either.
Speaker: After you stand up cooking all day, it's like, I didn't get to enjoy myself.
Speaker: You eat, and then you just be like, I'm tired.
Speaker: I don't even want to do nothing.
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Well, you know, we showing y'all here that the men can cook here too.
Speaker: You know, it's not just the women on Thanksgiving, you know, the men might have to throw down every once in a while.
Speaker: So shout out, shout out to the men that be cooking on Thanksgiving too.
Speaker: I'll be, I'll be doing it all.
Speaker: I'll be cooking, cleaning like a full package.
Speaker: Mr. Clean, Mr. Clean.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: You be in the white tea, the smiling and
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Given the nod.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Floor be like, that's if I'm like in the mood to clean though.
Speaker: Cause you know, you gotta be in a mood to like actually sit there and like, if I'm just like in a real life, like, Hey, you want to clean?
Speaker: Hey, I need you to clean something real quick.
Speaker: You know, I'll do some shit half ass.
Speaker: I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker: But when I'm in the zone, like I'm taking today to clean,
Speaker: on point.
Speaker: He'd be like, damn, is this Martha Stewart's house?
Speaker: Nah.
Speaker: Get my incense burning and shit.
Speaker: The candles all lit.
Speaker: Make it fresh and clean.
Speaker: Got the bed, bath, and beyond incense going.
Speaker: I know.
Speaker: I've been there before.
Speaker: Need to do that to my house right now.
Speaker: But we got a good episode for y'all guys this week.
Speaker: So first, we're going to get into our first topic about the typical home cost here in America.
Speaker: As two homeowners ourselves, we both kind of went through the...
Speaker: process of buying a house.
Speaker: We kind of gave y'all, I think it was back, what, season three?
Speaker: Maybe season two, I think.
Speaker: Maybe season two, we were both buying houses at the time.
Speaker: So we definitely know the struggle.
Speaker: But since then, the housing market has gone through a complete 180.
Speaker: I know when I was buying my house, the interest rates were in the twos.
Speaker: Now they're up into the sevens.
Speaker: I think.
Speaker: Let's see what today is.
Speaker: I think it's like 8% now.
Speaker: Yeah, I think they went down a little bit.
Speaker: Mortgage rates.
Speaker: Let's see what they are.
Speaker: Yeah, they are 8.085 on the 30-year.
Speaker: So they're extremely high.
Speaker: And this article is talking about that the average home
Speaker: Well, excuse me, the typical salary that needs to be made for you to afford the home is about $114,000 for a household.
Speaker: That's pretty high for America now.
Speaker: Since the average person pretty much only makes about $40,000.
Speaker: I mean, if you got two people in your household, you're only at about $80,000.
Speaker: So you're still well under.
Speaker: But that just goes to show you that America's not really going the right way with the houses.
Speaker: Now, I will say there's probably a little skew with areas like California and New York being thrown in there where you're
Speaker: You got million dollar three bedroom houses that are shacks.
Speaker: And that probably hurts that number.
Speaker: But, you know, we've seen the great exodus from California, great exodus of new kind of New York.
Speaker: But New York's kind of still people are still trying to live in New York.
Speaker: I don't understand it.
Speaker: Paying four thousand dollars for a one bedroom, 200 square foot box.
Speaker: But people want to live in New York for some odd reason.
Speaker: But what do you think about the current status of the housing?
Speaker: I would say market, maybe even crisis, if you want to call it, go that far of America.
Speaker: I'm very blessed that I bought my house when I bought my house.
Speaker: And even when I bought my house back in 2020, 21, 21,
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: How old was it on Mars?
Speaker: Mars?
Speaker: 21.
Speaker: Yeah, Mars was born in 2020.
Speaker: Yeah, so 21.
Speaker: And that was a headache in itself because like...
Speaker: like I explained in season two or season, whatever season we discussed purchasing homes, we literally was like going to all throughout all.
Speaker: I'm no bullshit.
Speaker: Probably looked at like over a hundred houses, put in like 60 bids.
Speaker: And like, it was, it was to the point where we had to put in bids for houses before we even looked at them.
Speaker: Like the art, even the house that we had now, we like,
Speaker: we looked at photos and was like, all right, let's throw in a bid because it was like, we would like literally like we would get to the house and they'd be like, Oh, sorry.
Speaker: It's off the market.
Speaker: It already been sold.
Speaker: And it's like, how are you going to schedule for a viewing?
Speaker: And it is like, you're just turning people away.
Speaker: And then it like, so, and then when I purchased a house, that was all these people from California or, you know, everyone going through those cat, uh,
Speaker: cash loans or pick cash payments or whatever, like straight cash.
Speaker: So it was like either the people were paying from California was, you know, their, their houses are like half a million dollars.
Speaker: They come to Texas to a large, uh, $2,200 house.
Speaker: And, uh,
Speaker: Uh, two or $220, not $220, $200.
Speaker: Uh, but they're going over 22 K to 300 K. They're putting in debt.
Speaker: They're putting double down on what they were fucking purchasing and backing at home.
Speaker: Cause they had the money to do it.
Speaker: So the market was super steep, but I'm super, super blessed that, you know, I'm not looking into purchasing a house now because I feel bad for people who's purchasing houses now because it's like the market is... You're playing two arms and two legs just to move in a house.
Speaker: And like they said...
Speaker: No, you can always refinance, but I just feel like refinancing is like you're just setting yourself back unless you have like this significant money where you can just pay a lot down on to refinance it to make it a lot cheaper.
Speaker: It's more of a headache to do so.
Speaker: So.
Speaker: I feel people's pains.
Speaker: I've been through the struggle and, you know, I have some friends that are realtors and stuff like that.
Speaker: And I feel bad for them because it's like it's putting a hurt on their cost of living, too.
Speaker: Like they got to make they got to pay bills.
Speaker: And that's the only way that, you know, they pay bills is putting people in houses.
Speaker: So it's like, what, what, what are people supposed to do?
Speaker: And I just feel like it's all a setup just to make more apartments.
Speaker: I see more apartments being built every day than I do see houses now.
Speaker: And it's like,
Speaker: they're learning from overseas like China.
Speaker: They're just going to start putting people on top of each other until like there's literally no, either the rich have houses and everybody else is living in these skyscrapers or, you know, basically you staying under your parents' house until you're 45 and hoping, you know, they don't pass away so you could take over their house.
Speaker: Yeah, it's a bad situation.
Speaker: And I think,
Speaker: One of the solutions is a little bit more affordable housing.
Speaker: And I agree with you.
Speaker: The apartments are like, especially here in Florida, they're being affordable.
Speaker: stacked everywhere.
Speaker: Panama city, uh, there's a new apartment complex, like literally everywhere you look and it renting can be more expensive than owning.
Speaker: That's the craziest part.
Speaker: But the problem with buying a house is you have to have the initial money to get into the house.
Speaker: So if your house is 300,000, you still need, you know, maybe 50, 60 grand to even like say, this is my house.
Speaker: And it's just crazy.
Speaker: The type of, uh,
Speaker: I guess, I don't even know what they're called.
Speaker: It's just capitalism.
Speaker: The way capitalism is structured, you really don't ever get a chance to come up for the most part.
Speaker: You get the few people that come up, like the Jeff Bezos success stories, but most people spend most of their life grinding.
Speaker: It's kind of sad that America is supposed to be the
Speaker: land of opportunity, but where, where's the opportunity?
Speaker: You know, the houses are triple the cost you need, you know, to make $200,000 a year to afford a house.
Speaker: And some people just don't have that ability to do that.
Speaker: Um, but this goes back to what we always say on this show is you gotta, gotta have to have a skill.
Speaker: Um, the skills is what pays the money.
Speaker: You know, you being, uh, selling, uh, shoes at Nike or, uh, was a finish line or something like that.
Speaker: That's not,
Speaker: You won't be struggling for the rest of your life.
Speaker: You need to have a tangible, workable skill.
Speaker: Unless he's selling them retros out of the back of the store.
Speaker: Yeah, you might make a little bit of something off of that.
Speaker: But you need a tangible, workable skill that people are paying for.
Speaker: Whether it's IT, whether it's plumbing, whether it's electricity.
Speaker: With all these houses and apartments getting slapped up everywhere.
Speaker: They have to be wired for electricity.
Speaker: The hands, the working of the hands, man, that's where you can make a lot of money too.
Speaker: And trades aren't expensive to get into.
Speaker: There's a lot of programs that give you trades for free, especially if you're in high school and stuff.
Speaker: So there's the sheet metal, stuff like that.
Speaker: If you're really looking to try to up your game, these are some fields I recommend getting into.
Speaker: But
Speaker: Make a long story short, you guys got to look at the current market and really make sure when you're trying to buy a house, it's the best deal you can get.
Speaker: It's hard to figure that out, but there's a lot of programs out there to help you.
Speaker: First-time homebuyers, veterans got the VA.
Speaker: Just make sure you look at all your options before you buy a house.
Speaker: If you guys have any questions, you got two people who bought properties here.
Speaker: And we're trying to buy more.
Speaker: So maybe we can give you all some insight.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So I've already came to the conclusion.
Speaker: Like I love my house.
Speaker: I love here in Houston.
Speaker: But, you know, when it's time to get out of this house, I'm going to do everything I can to hold on to it as much as I can.
Speaker: Probably just like rent this one out and then move into something.
Speaker: Probably an apartment until I can afford it.
Speaker: to you know someone moves into this one to where i have a city income to pay for this one and then move into my dream home but it's definitely going to be outside of the city like i'm talking about maybe like an hour hour and a half like it's just this like and i'm pretty sure it's not even just here in houston it's probably in all major big cities so it's just like the more the closer you are to the city the higher the prices get and it's like
Speaker: I had some coworker that was sitting there talking about how he's, he's out there in the country.
Speaker: And he was like, bro, the same price I pay for like a four bedroom house is what I was paying for, like a two bedroom apartment in the city.
Speaker: So it's like, and plus like, I want more, I've,
Speaker: I feel like in order to create wealth, you need land.
Speaker: So that's my next thought process is like, all right, now when I, as if I can't get it, you know, you got to crawl, walk, run.
Speaker: But my, my objective is, is to purchase land.
Speaker: So I have like acres and shit.
Speaker: So, you know, I can do what the fuck I want to do.
Speaker: I don't have to worry about HOA.
Speaker: I don't have to worry about, you know, these crazy taxes, you know,
Speaker: So that's the end goal is to own a lot of own land while having, you know, a nice house.
Speaker: A lot of things that people need to take consideration is those.
Speaker: Have you seen those barn anomiums?
Speaker: I'm probably butchering the pronunciation of it, but it's basically a barn house.
Speaker: Some of those are really nice.
Speaker: And another thing that I was thinking about, too, like especially with a lot of land, those have you seen those Connex homes where they take Connexes and they basically like the tiny homes?
Speaker: No, it's not tiny homes.
Speaker: Basically, they take like like the semi truck containers and they make houses out of those.
Speaker: I don't see that now.
Speaker: Like they'll make, they'll probably like put like, they'll probably put like maybe two or three and then they build the house out of those.
Speaker: So like they'll have windows.
Speaker: I'll send you videos of it.
Speaker: It's pretty dope.
Speaker: So those are pretty much, those are pretty cool options to think of.
Speaker: But yeah, it's, it's sad.
Speaker: It's like, we were supposed to be like, we're supposed to be the greatest country in the world.
Speaker: And it's like,
Speaker: people could barely afford food people could barely afford gas housing and like that's that should be like easy as fuck to like oh you want a house all right here you go like it's not like we don't have the land or the the it's just people are so damn greedy out here that they just trying to capitalize on every fucking thing in this world and it's pretty much sad but
Speaker: Yeah, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Speaker: That's very true.
Speaker: Very true.
Speaker: Sad, sad, but true.
Speaker: But on to a more maybe cheery topic, possibly, depending on if you're in a relationship or not.
Speaker: But we saw another post on Instagram.
Speaker: I thought this one was interesting.
Speaker: It talked about how happy couples don't post their partners on social media.
Speaker: And...
Speaker: I thought about that when you sent it to me and I was like, hmm, let's see.
Speaker: I mean, I posted me and my girl on social media a couple times.
Speaker: I got a few posts here and there, but I really don't post us that often.
Speaker: And I feel like there's a lot of truth to that.
Speaker: Just because I feel like one of the reasons why marriage fails a lot in the United States is because of availability.
Speaker: You're on social media.
Speaker: You have Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or X, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker: TikTok, threads.
Speaker: You know, you can Snapchat.
Speaker: Someone can always message you, get a hold of you, no matter what, anytime, anyplace, anywhere, at any time.
Speaker: That really can hurt the dynamics of a relationship because you could go out on the internet and see something better than what you got and really start questioning yourself internally.
Speaker: Like, well, these guys look so happy.
Speaker: Look how much they travel across the world.
Speaker: Or, you know, like, oh, he did this.
Speaker: Oh, he did that.
Speaker: And you see women do that a lot where they'll be like, oh, the whole list of,
Speaker: places they didn't want to go.
Speaker: Why are they saying that?
Speaker: Because they see these celebrity rich people do these things that only they can do.
Speaker: And think that that's supposed to be done on them as well.
Speaker: And it's like, look, these people are millionaires, billionaires in some, even some cases.
Speaker: They have the assets, the ability, the money to rent out Benihana's, bring all your friends and have a whole birthday bash.
Speaker: for you there and be like, oh, that's so creative.
Speaker: See, they were creative.
Speaker: They didn't try to just take me to cheesecake.
Speaker: They also spent $10,000.
Speaker: Do you have $10,000 to spend?
Speaker: It's crazy.
Speaker: But yeah, so I think social media has definitely been the downfall of the marriage.
Speaker: And I'd say that I agree with this back to the initial thing is that happy couples probably don't post
Speaker: on social media and happy couples probably just really aren't on social media at all.
Speaker: Really.
Speaker: You know, they might post highlights of their life.
Speaker: Like, Hey, we had a new baby.
Speaker: Uh, Hey, here's our engagement photos.
Speaker: Hey, here's some pictures of the wedding.
Speaker: Hey, here's, uh, yeah.
Speaker: Maternity pictures.
Speaker: But for the most part, you know, I find that couples that stay together long, long term are just, you know, blips of their life, you know, here and there, but they're not really plugged into social media.
Speaker: Uh,
Speaker: What do you think?
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Just to give some backstory to this one, it says over 300 couples were polled in the study, which was performed by academics at the University of Kansas.
Speaker: Kansas participants were quizzed on the relationship as well as their social media activity.
Speaker: The study discovered that couples that constantly post on social media are more prone to compare their relationships to others.
Speaker: It's difficult not to compare yourself when you're constantly seeing other couples, joyful moments and gorgeous images.
Speaker: This can cause feelings of jealousy and insecurity, which AB said, which can detrimental to a relationship.
Speaker: The study also discovered that couples who post less frequently are less prone to compare their relationship to others.
Speaker: There are reports feeling less pressure to have the perfect relationship.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: They suggest that couples who don't post as much are more likely to be happy and truthful in the relationship.
Speaker: For me personally, I try not, I post, I post key moments, like you said, like most of them, my posts are mostly like my daughter or, you know, family events or stuff like that.
Speaker: So I'll post like that.
Speaker: But in, in reality, like,
Speaker: I don't go on social media to check out other people's relationships or anything like that because I
Speaker: not every, you just, because you see something on social media, don't mean that that's the actual, that's just a persona that they have just to post on their social media.
Speaker: We do post like our maternity photos, which we did like two weeks ago.
Speaker: I'll post, you know, stuff Mars does or, you know, her holiday photos and shit like that.
Speaker: But in order to actually just sit there and post like my girl all day, every day, like,
Speaker: uh i one i don't do that just because you know there are people on your social media that sit there and and prowl on your shit and you know you keep posting your girl then you know some some people will try to use that against you and try to be like oh let me help let me see if how faithful they are you know shit like that so um
Speaker: But at the end of the day, me, I can't speak for other people's relationships or anything like that, but I can concur with that.
Speaker: Most of my friends who, you know, are in relationships, we don't really post our significant others like that crazy enough.
Speaker: I mean, we all have our ups and downs, our disagreements in our relationships, our difficult times in relationships.
Speaker: But for the most part, it's not like we, you know, most of us have strong relationships or from what I can see and what I see from my friends and their significant others.
Speaker: I don't see people, you know, and the
Speaker: AB can contest this.
Speaker: We've seen some of our friends and even us ourselves go through some very difficult times with our significant others.
Speaker: And, you know, it's a bend but don't break relationship.
Speaker: Like you got in the biggest thing about relationships is you got to be honest with one another.
Speaker: Like some shit pisses you off.
Speaker: You can't just be like holding it in.
Speaker: You got to let that person know because if you don't let them know, then it's just they're never they're going to keep doing the same shit over and over and over again.
Speaker: And I'm starting to learn like older generations.
Speaker: Like for instance, my parents have their turmoils.
Speaker: They've been, luckily they've been together for almost, I think like 30 years or some shit like that.
Speaker: But they've been separated multiple times and gone through the ringer.
Speaker: Raven's parents have their, had their difficult times or, you know, they sometimes bicker and fight and, you know, you got to kind of like reel them back in and stuff like that.
Speaker: So it's like,
Speaker: you know, the older generations that just, you know, like, you know, they hold on to each other, but, you know, they, they learned, like, you know, you can't, it's, everything's not always sunshine and rainbows all the time.
Speaker: And it's like, some people are set up to be that type of way.
Speaker: Like you, like,
Speaker: we were having a discussion about this a couple of days ago, me and Raven was like, yo, like some people's parents don't set them up the way that other people's have been set up.
Speaker: Like, like for me and her, it's like, you know, we weren't,
Speaker: our you know we didn't have like significant credit scores as soon as we you know graduated like some people set their kids up or you know or we didn't have this like significant cash flow that we could just like oh let me go purchase this house or let me go buy this we had a lot of this shit we had to learn on our own because our parents just like they just you know they were old school they knew like you gotta work you gotta grind to get you know nice things and that's all they knew they didn't know about you know
Speaker: some of the benefits that you like some of the easy ways to live a better life or some shit like that.
Speaker: So it's like your, your environment kind of sets you or sets you apart from everything else.
Speaker: So it's like, you got to learn some of these things as you go.
Speaker: So, um,
Speaker: I think it's just like you said, everyone in social media always thinks you're supposed to have this glorious lifestyle.
Speaker: For me, you're supposed to post those key moments in life to where you can look back at it and be like,
Speaker: damn, I remember that.
Speaker: Or, you know, that, damn, that was a good moment in life or that was a good moment for us.
Speaker: But posting everything under the sun, like what we had for breakfast today or, you know, stuff like that.
Speaker: It's like you open yourself up to a lot of people to where, you know, a lot of people, you know, can criticize and and
Speaker: put, you know, those negative aspects into your relationship.
Speaker: So I thought about it initially before we did the podcast to, you know, do like a vlog on my life and stuff like that.
Speaker: And then like, but then the more I got, I thought about it and I was like, you know, like that's just like allowing people
Speaker: millions of people just, you know, to critique or, you know, to, you know, like even once you reach a certain status on where people actually want to view, like look, see your life and like actually want to watch it day in and day out.
Speaker: Then you have, you have that stress and that expectation of, okay, I got to give these viewers something incredible to watch or, you know, it's going to go down and this is all going to crumble.
Speaker: So it's like, it's a lot of stress.
Speaker: And like I said, there's no perfect relationship in any relationship, in any relationship.
Speaker: atmosphere um you'll see it in in white collar america you'll see it in blue collar america it's like the it's it's it's peaks and valleys and everything that we do i think it's the the biggest thing is within a relationship you got to learn to to grind and to communicate and know when like hey i at this point i i'm not loving you to the best of my capabilities right now i like i'm off
Speaker: Like in that person gots to accept it and take it for what it is.
Speaker: So I'm going to circle back to the root.
Speaker: I know kind of we go on one track and then we go in different, different corners and aspects of the question.
Speaker: But for me personally, I feel like.
Speaker: I only want to share my key moments of me and my significant others when it's a key moment that I think the world should see.
Speaker: And other than that, as long as my woman knows that I love her to death,
Speaker: I don't give a fuck what everybody sees.
Speaker: I don't care if you don't see you like you're not supposed to know what goes into our relationship because it's our relationship.
Speaker: It's not Malcolm and Raven's in the world's relationship.
Speaker: It's me and hers.
Speaker: And so at the end of the day,
Speaker: We're the two that keep this ball rolling.
Speaker: So that's the only two expectations that are worth anything.
Speaker: Everybody else's goes to shit.
Speaker: So that's just my thought process on it.
Speaker: And I agree.
Speaker: And I think a lot of the problems that we have is that when we see these pictures and we see these moments, we assume that everything is perfect.
Speaker: Because that's one singular moment.
Speaker: And you peel it back a little bit and you might not see as of a happy relationship as you think you're seeing on the surface.
Speaker: So that's why it's very important that you look internally at your relationship instead of externally.
Speaker: Because externally, you can see whatever you want to see.
Speaker: Internally is where you're going to see the root of, if it's in a bad shape, why is it bad?
Speaker: Well, because X, Y, Z. You're not going to see that from pictures on the outside.
Speaker: You're only going to see that on the inside.
Speaker: And one of the things I've learned a lot, we do premarital counseling.
Speaker: And during the premarital counseling, we had a lot of...
Speaker: different stuff we had to talk about, you know, like personal, like deep, deep personal stuff.
Speaker: And like that stuff's really very important.
Speaker: And like the communication, the expectations, the, you know, where do you want to be?
Speaker: You know, the evolving of a person, all that stuff is important, you know, and that's the stuff that's going to keep your relationship strong.
Speaker: Not, you know, the pictures, the moment, the moments, but, you know, working through problem, problem solving,
Speaker: financial budgeting, you know, all this stuff is very important, you know, and there's a lot of people out there that are, you know, my money is my money, her money is her money.
Speaker: And if you want to be that way, that's fine.
Speaker: But,
Speaker: You know, oneness is very important when you're in a relationship.
Speaker: So, you know, coming together is very important, you know, and becoming one.
Speaker: So that starts within, not external.
Speaker: So if you're one of those people that, you know, looks at pictures a lot or you're one of those women that, you know, tries to be like, you know, this is the perfect relationship, especially the celebrity stuff.
Speaker: Don't look at that stuff at all because that stuff is super fake.
Speaker: Facts.
Speaker: super fake and fabricated.
Speaker: So those are not good relationships to look at.
Speaker: Look at people in your community.
Speaker: If you got an auntie and a cousin or you go to church and Miss Bethel and Mr. Bruce been married for 45 years, those are the people you want to be like, hey, how did y'all make it this far?
Speaker: Not Beyonce and Jay-Z, not Sweetie and Quavo or whoever the
Speaker: celebrity fling of the year is, but the people who have already been there, done that, and walk in that, and can give you that advice that you need,
Speaker: That's how I used to have a good relationship.
Speaker: But I think another thing about it is, is like everything's trial and error.
Speaker: So it's like, you gotta, you gotta express yourself in, in, in it.
Speaker: Cause sometimes it's hard because, you know, you never want to bring up an extern and like a, uh, in a relationship because then it's like, why are you thinking about this other person or something like that?
Speaker: But like,
Speaker: we are not perfect human beings and I tested that to myself because I was married once didn't work out it was it is what it is but that like I use those key moments and I explain that to Raven all the time I be like hey man if I'm coming to you and I'm bitching and complaining about something it's because it really bothers me and I'm expressing it to you so you are aware of it because in previous relationships I would not I would just be like cold hearted like alright fuck it maybe I'm tripping or you know what I mean
Speaker: And then I would get with you in HQ and then I'd be like, bro, like, man, I'm going through it, bro.
Speaker: Like, like, and then I'd like, and then you'd be like, nah, bro, you kind of got some points.
Speaker: And then I'd just be like, you know what?
Speaker: I am.
Speaker: But then I would never say anything.
Speaker: And then so it would be a blind side when I was like, it got to that point where you got to that limit to where it's just like, I'm just letting it loose.
Speaker: So it's like, you got to like, everything's a learning experience.
Speaker: Like you're not always going to get everything right.
Speaker: And the good thing that I can say that social media does is it gives you something you I wouldn't say that you can sit there and strive to be like these people, but it can give you something like a new perspective that you might want to try.
Speaker: Or it gives you something to a goal to reach towards like, OK, like you see some of these these couples and they got like a.
Speaker: eight-bedroom house, six-car garage, sitting on a 10-acre lot.
Speaker: And you'd be like, hey, baby, that's what we striving for.
Speaker: And let's do what we got to do.
Speaker: Let's sit here and grind to get to that status.
Speaker: Or they're kids.
Speaker: A lot of people like to post how they're raising their kids and whatnot.
Speaker: I'd be like,
Speaker: No, that's a good thought process.
Speaker: Maybe we should intertwine that in raising our kids, you know, shit like that.
Speaker: So there are some benefits to it.
Speaker: But to sit there and be like, oh, I want to live like fucking Jay-Z and Beyonce.
Speaker: That's those expectations are you're setting yourself up for failure.
Speaker: So, I mean, there is some benefits to it, but I think it's just the experiences that you have.
Speaker: You have to be able to, you know, use your previous experiences and learn from other people, like you said, and grasp like key concepts to make a relationship.
Speaker: And I think that's that's the biggest thing is like like it's great that you guys are doing counseling and stuff like that.
Speaker: And, you know, it does work for a lot of people.
Speaker: It may not work for everybody.
Speaker: Like my parents, I'm telling you this right now.
Speaker: My dad is old school as fuck.
Speaker: He will not sit there and go to counseling.
Speaker: But nowadays they'll sit there and they do whatever they need to do to work.
Speaker: They sit there and talk it out now.
Speaker: And so it's like communication is the biggest and most important thing in any relationship.
Speaker: So I would say if you need new techniques, then hey, do what you got to do to learn those techniques.
Speaker: And if social media can teach you how to
Speaker: learn those communicating skills to speak to your partner, to better your relationship, then all means, but to sit here and strive to be a couple on Instagram or, you know, have those, we got to go to the pumpkin patch and dress in the, you know, you know, boots and, and, and hats and flannels.
Speaker: And, you know, that's just a lot of stress on top of a lot of stress.
Speaker: Like,
Speaker: we do like, we'll do the pajamas for Christmas.
Speaker: Cause that's something simple, but I'm not sitting here going out and paying all these photographers to take all these fucking photos just because we got to make it look like we're the best couple in the world.
Speaker: Cause in my mind, we're the best couple in the world, regardless if I'm living in a two hut shack or I'm living in a $8 million mansion, like, because it's us against us.
Speaker: And that's the biggest thing that people fail to realize.
Speaker: I agree.
Speaker: I definitely agree with you.
Speaker: I have no...
Speaker: You summed it up pretty well.
Speaker: So, but we don't want to keep going too long on this cause we could talk forever, but go down the road.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Like we said, make sure you guys are looking internal before you look external for anything, you know, and make sure you're communicating with your, with your spouse, if you're having problems, but we're going to move on to the next topic.
Speaker: And, uh, this one's kind of basic sounds basic, but, uh,
Speaker: It's got some good implications.
Speaker: Got some good implications.
Speaker: It does.
Speaker: I saw another article that said, according to a study by Randall Bell, making your bed every morning makes you 206% more likely to become a millionaire.
Speaker: You know, when I read this, I immediately started making my bed.
Speaker: And then actually, yeah, I was like rushing, like, oh, shit.
Speaker: Gotta make my bed.
Speaker: But...
Speaker: Deeper, it says, researchers Randall Bell studied the habits of rich and found that if you make your bed each morning, you are 206% more likely to become a millionaire.
Speaker: Changes your frame of reference that carries out throughout the day.
Speaker: That when there's a job to be done, you're going to get it done, he said.
Speaker: He also said that the rich read 30 or more minutes a day and wake up three hours before the workday officially begins.
Speaker: Habits are what
Speaker: From our lives, he explained.
Speaker: Oh, excuse me.
Speaker: Habits are what form our lives.
Speaker: That's one of the rich habits that real estate entrepreneur Ari Rastegar adopted.
Speaker: It's a time when there's no noise or outside world.
Speaker: You have a moment to review your checklist.
Speaker: See what worked that day.
Speaker: Strategize what's the next day going to look like.
Speaker: Other habits include writing to-do lists, controlling emotions, and smiling at neighbors.
Speaker: They're friendly people.
Speaker: Thomas Corley said, millionaire researcher Corley learned a lot about his neighbors.
Speaker: So basically, this is just saying, to sum this up is your habits.
Speaker: The keys to be successful are going to be your habits, which we all pretty much know that.
Speaker: Bad habits equal bad decisions equal bad outcomes.
Speaker: Good habits equal good decisions equal good outcomes.
Speaker: It's a pretty basic concept, but sometimes it can be hard to actually implement.
Speaker: Not just the art of getting up in the morning and making your bed, but just getting up in the morning and having maybe that, for me, one of my morning things is having prayer time, morning devotion, reading.
Speaker: is another big thing.
Speaker: I try to read.
Speaker: I try to read every night.
Speaker: I don't necessarily always do, but I try to go into the premarital counseling.
Speaker: I do a lot of reading of the material they provided us going through, but it's a lot of self-reflection.
Speaker: Hey, where can I be better at?
Speaker: Hey, where am I doing good at?
Speaker: Hey, where was I good at this week in work?
Speaker: Hey, was I slacking?
Speaker: Was I
Speaker: Was I on point here?
Speaker: Was I on point there?
Speaker: Talking to your manager even maybe, like, hey, where can I be better at?
Speaker: Okay, he says my organization skills aren't that great.
Speaker: Okay, let me go find some books about organizing and how to get organized.
Speaker: I mean, and these are things that we take for granted.
Speaker: We have a wealth of knowledge, the internet, where you can find free information everywhere.
Speaker: that don't cost you a dime.
Speaker: You don't even have to go buy books.
Speaker: You can just type in on YouTube, 10 ways to be better organized.
Speaker: I'm sure a video will come up right now of somebody who makes a video about being organized who's pretty organized.
Speaker: So these habits are key.
Speaker: And if you have bad ones, you need to try to break them.
Speaker: So the self-reflection part of this article is really what I took away the most.
Speaker: But definitely, definitely create good habits.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So when I, when I read it, I did the same thing.
Speaker: I was like, Oh shit, let me start, you know, let me, cause you know, being a parent is kind of hard to, you know, sit there and take the time to make your bed.
Speaker: Cause it's like, I wake up, I got to feed the dogs, you know, I got to get, you know, Mars stress and everything, get her up and running.
Speaker: I got to get, you know, make sure she eats before we go.
Speaker: And then I'm,
Speaker: taking her to daycare and then coming home and then I'm hopping on the work, hopping on the computer to go to work, yada, yada, yada.
Speaker: So, but it was like, so now, but it, and the funny thing is, is like, I started doing that.
Speaker: It's like, all right, maybe I saw, you know, while she's sitting at the table eating all, you know,
Speaker: I'm not saying I'm, you know, doing fucking military corners and all that stuff on my beds like we used to do in basic.
Speaker: But it's just like, like you said, just doing focusing on one task and doing it.
Speaker: And I think, like I said, in numerous episodes is I feel like we just like our brains are just so used to going a thousand miles per hour.
Speaker: And it's just like we got multiple things that we're trying to do.
Speaker: And multitasking is a great thing in this world.
Speaker: But sometimes we get so focused into doing multiple things that we forgot.
Speaker: We forget to just do one task at a time.
Speaker: And it's just like even like sometimes even for work, like work be trying to have you do like eight billion things.
Speaker: And it's like sometimes I even I'm a victim of it.
Speaker: I'd be like, what the fuck was I like?
Speaker: I'm trying to do eight things at once that I forget what I was doing on that one task.
Speaker: So I was like, that's one big thing that I have been trying to do is just like focus on one task at a time.
Speaker: Like, hey, if I got one thing that I need to do, let me do this one thing right now, even though it may take me like five minutes and I could have did like eight other things while I was doing it.
Speaker: Let me focus on this one thing so I make sure I do this correctly because I
Speaker: the implications of me doing it wrong while I'm trying to do eight things that I might not even I'll make an error and then by the time I can catch the error it's way too late in the game you know what I'm saying so that's one thing I have tried to focus on is just doing one task at a time and
Speaker: I feel like it works.
Speaker: I felt like, you know, at work, I'm more productive.
Speaker: Like, you know, I stopped trying to sit there.
Speaker: Listening, I think, is another key thing for me, too.
Speaker: It's like sometimes I like I listen, but I only listen to give a response.
Speaker: I don't listen at the whole totality of the information that's being given.
Speaker: I'm just like, oh,
Speaker: okay, AB says I'm wrong because of this.
Speaker: And then I'm listening to what he's saying I'm wrong on so I can have in my mind, I can already create a rebuttal on why I'm right.
Speaker: You know, instead of just actually listening on why he feels that way.
Speaker: And then listen to the totality to actually process exactly what he is trying to say initially instead of just saying that I'm wrong.
Speaker: So, but the biggest thing is reading.
Speaker: I've, I've, I've, I try to maintain that.
Speaker: It's kind of hard.
Speaker: Cause you know, you, like I said, you're doing like 8 billion things at once, you know, especially as parents, you know, you get off work, you want to just relax.
Speaker: So, you know, you spend a little bit of time on social media and then the next thing you know, it's like nine o'clock.
Speaker: I get the kids ready for bed and whatnot.
Speaker: But I try to do a much reading, but I try to do reading for like stuff that is actually either one, it gets me out of the day to day process, like not so fantasy stuff, but like things that like makes my mind like create the imagery of what I'm reading or something that benefits me.
Speaker: Um,
Speaker: I can't remember.
Speaker: There was one book that I read.
Speaker: It was like a, it was a pimp called ice iceberg slim, which a lot of like Dave Chappelle, um, suggested it on one of his standups.
Speaker: And it's actually a really fucking good book.
Speaker: And like, it makes you think like, you know, it's about a dude who's like out there pimping and you're like, you,
Speaker: like most people see me reading it and they're like what the hell but it was actually a really good fucking book and it it in some aspects it taught you concepts of like how to you know major concepts that people don't think about that you know sets you apart from other things and like the psychological and and mental thing of you know
Speaker: pimping.
Speaker: That's really what it was, but it was like, I'm not trying to be no pimp or nothing, but it was just to learn why a pimp does what he does.
Speaker: It was super interesting to do that, but reading is a major thing that I think.
Speaker: I think that we're just so caught up in watching videos and being on social media that we forget your brain is a tool, and we need to sharpen that tool each and every day, and sometimes we dumb ourselves just by
Speaker: oh, I can watch this five minute video of teaching me how to do a car instead of actually doing it.
Speaker: Or like, you know, kids nowadays, they like to watch other people play video games.
Speaker: And it's like,
Speaker: what the fuck?
Speaker: Like, why would you spend all this money playing, putting, you know, purchasing this game just to watch somebody else do it?
Speaker: I mean, I get it.
Speaker: It's like, it's entertaining, but why don't you use like, if it is, is it something that they're teaching you how to do to benefit your gaming?
Speaker: Or are you just watching it just because this dude has like 18 million views and you want to watch him play a game that you like to play, you know?
Speaker: So it's like, I thought when picking it back,
Speaker: or pulling it back because like I said, we've been rambling or going down rabbit holes.
Speaker: I just think that it's just teaching you how to focus on one task at a time.
Speaker: And I think that's something that we need to do.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And like you said, your brain's a tool, you know, and you got to sharpen it every day.
Speaker: Sharpen that blade.
Speaker: The sharper you get, you know, the more dangerous you'll be.
Speaker: You know, the more you're cut through
Speaker: all the BS and be able to get to the meat of what you're trying to get to, whether that's be a millionaire or just be happy in your own life.
Speaker: You'll be able to figure that out the more you sharpen your mind and figure out what makes you happy.
Speaker: It really doesn't matter what it is.
Speaker: It's always just, I mean, it goes back to the first topic, self-reflection and self-improvement.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I've heard is one thing that, uh, it really stuck to me.
Speaker: Uh, I saw it on Instagram and it was like, God would always, I'm not the most religious person.
Speaker: I go to church every day, but I'm very into God.
Speaker: That's just been my, my,
Speaker: my thought process.
Speaker: So like I, my, I was raised Southern Baptist.
Speaker: So it was like, you always like, you don't have to go to church just to, you know, just to have your own faith.
Speaker: It's just your relationship with God.
Speaker: But my own thing about it is, it's like, I've heard someone say like, God will show you the vision.
Speaker: God will show you where you're going.
Speaker: Like he'll show you the end goal, but he won't show you the in between because that's your, that's, you need to learn what you need to do in order to get to that end goal.
Speaker: And I feel like that's a lot of like what we, a lot of us fail to do.
Speaker: It's like, we always think,
Speaker: we always want let's be honest all of us want to be rich to where we don't got to do shit and we can just spend lots of money and go on these exotic vacations and and flex on instagram right but none of us are none of us are set to fucking follow there's no regimen on how we can all attain that right we have to learn that shit but how many people are actually going out there and doing whatever they need to do to obtain that lifestyle
Speaker: A lot of people just like sitting on their phones, wishing, wishing, coulda, shoulda, woulda do all the shit that they could have done or that they wish they could do.
Speaker: And they're just, they're not doing none of that.
Speaker: And I think that's the biggest takeaway from all of these topics that we have mentioned today is stop trying to
Speaker: stop just visualizing and actually going out to do it.
Speaker: And we've, we've been the biggest, you know, like we say, positive mindsets make the positive outcomes.
Speaker: We've been positive on our whole, like, and most of our lifestyle or, you know, our life to where, you know, even when negative ship happens to us, I always take something positive out of it.
Speaker: It's either a lesson that I've learned or something to prevent me from doing it again.
Speaker: So I've like, no matter what has happened and AB can contest some of the, some of the shit that I can tell you about my life or have I gone through, you think like it was a movie.
Speaker: And I, and I tell you like, Hey, there's peaks and valleys.
Speaker: I've always taken something negative and made it a positive or a life lessons.
Speaker: And it's always benefited me for the best.
Speaker: I can't say that I'm not the person I am today without any of the negative aspects that I've gone through in my life.
Speaker: So that's what you really got to do.
Speaker: You just got to sit there and go through the journey and keep grinding every day.
Speaker: You're going to get kicked down.
Speaker: You're going to get kicked.
Speaker: You know what they say?
Speaker: You take two steps forward to get knocked down, four steps back, and it's going to happen regardless.
Speaker: It doesn't matter who you are, but it's what you do after you get kicked down the four steps that makes you the better person or takes you to the next level.
Speaker: So that's the biggest thing.
Speaker: It's like, you know, I'll tie in the video games back into it.
Speaker: It's like, you know, you're Super Mario and you're the large you take the mushroom, you're the large Mario.
Speaker: And then something happens and you shrink back to the small one.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And you got to do whatever you got to do in order to get back to the large Super Mario.
Speaker: So it's kind of same concept.
Speaker: It's just like we just got to keep.
Speaker: Keep always each and every day, you got to keep going to be a better person each and every day.
Speaker: Exactly, you know, take one step forward every day as best you can.
Speaker: You know, you might take two steps backwards, but keep grinding.
Speaker: You'll get there eventually.
Speaker: You know, wherever you want to be, you'll get there eventually.
Speaker: But we don't want to keep going down the rabbit hole, so let's climb back up.
Speaker: And let's get these bets in real quick.
Speaker: So let me see, you know, because your boy, I feel like I'm sitting on about a thousand cases of goose right now.
Speaker: but I don't know.
Speaker: I don't even know anymore.
Speaker: You smoking crack right now.
Speaker: I don't even know anymore.
Speaker: You know what I'm saying?
Speaker: I have no idea.
Speaker: How many cases I got, y'all?
Speaker: Let me know.
Speaker: You up a bottle.
Speaker: You ain't up on a case.
Speaker: I'm up way more than a bottle.
Speaker: What?
Speaker: No, because you lost the first week, the first week that we put that we bet, we bet two bottles and I won the first week.
Speaker: And then ever since then, we've only bet one bottle a game.
Speaker: So you, we bet in four games, those two broken clock hit twice.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: So you were up to, and then we've been bet.
Speaker: We've been breaking even the last two.
Speaker: So you've been only up one game.
Speaker: Whatever you hate her anyways.
Speaker: All right, so let's see what we got.
Speaker: What we got, what we got.
Speaker: Week nine.
Speaker: Ooh, you want to bet on this Dolphins, Kansas City?
Speaker: I'll take Dolphins.
Speaker: Why is this game at 830?
Speaker: Because it's in Germany.
Speaker: Oh.
Speaker: I'll take Dolphins.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: I'll take my boy.
Speaker: Take my homeboy.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Seahawks, Ravens?
Speaker: Seahawks, Ravens?
Speaker: No.
Speaker: The Ravens are going to dominate the Seahawks.
Speaker: Are you kidding?
Speaker: Or how about, you know, you just take Dallas.
Speaker: I'll take the Eagles, and then we'll just call it.
Speaker: Or you want Bengals, Beagles?
Speaker: I'll do the.
Speaker: Yeah, let's do Bengals, Beagles.
Speaker: I got Swaggy B, you already know.
Speaker: I always been on Joe Burr.
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Come on.
Speaker: I might like that Seahawks Raven.
Speaker: No, because I didn't realize the Seahawks was 5-2.
Speaker: But I'm going.
Speaker: Roll with your boy Pete.
Speaker: Okay, I'll take the bills.
Speaker: I'll take the bills.
Speaker: I'll take the bills.
Speaker: Bills and bankers.
Speaker: You don't have faith in Gino?
Speaker: No, I don't.
Speaker: Oh, gotcha.
Speaker: You see, you've been gassing him up, so I figured you would take him.
Speaker: That's why I was trying to throw that hand.
Speaker: Not over the Ravens, no.
Speaker: Even though we did beat them this year already, but I still... That was a fluke game.
Speaker: I mean, literally.
Speaker: I won't even sit here and act like we beat them because we were better than them.
Speaker: Alright, I got two bottles on the Bengals.
Speaker: And I'm going to do.
Speaker: I'll do a bottle on the Bengals game.
Speaker: And then I'll do two bottles on the.
Speaker: Oh, come on.
Speaker: You scared, man.
Speaker: You out here scared.
Speaker: Nah, I'm not going to.
Speaker: Hell no.
Speaker: Because Joe Burrow.
Speaker: I'm a big Joe Burrow fan.
Speaker: So I'm not going to sit there and take a bet that that's 50-50 right there.
Speaker: Fine, fine, fine, fine.
Speaker: Scary ass.
Speaker: I'll do.
Speaker: Yeah, we'll do two on Kansas City.
Speaker: How about that?
Speaker: I bet.
Speaker: You know, I need to start asking for the points.
Speaker: You know what I'm saying?
Speaker: Actually, let's look at the NBA.
Speaker: Come on.
Speaker: Let's add to it.
Speaker: You know, they got the tournament.
Speaker: Have you been watching that?
Speaker: We didn't even talk about James Harden go to the Clippers.
Speaker: That's crazy.
Speaker: I ain't even intrigued by that.
Speaker: It is what it is like.
Speaker: Have you been watching the little tournament?
Speaker: I've not watched the internee.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But it does look like the Magic is putting a whooping on your Lakers.
Speaker: I am going to the Rockets-Kings game here on Monday night.
Speaker: I was planning on going to the one tonight.
Speaker: But Monday night, I got way better seats for like 40.
Speaker: I think it was like for two tickets was like 40 bucks.
Speaker: This is a Monday game, so not a people...
Speaker: And it's like right behind the post.
Speaker: So you might see me.
Speaker: If it is broadcast, you might see me with my King jersey and shit.
Speaker: It ain't going to be broadcast.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: Maybe if the King was playing Golden State or something, that might be televised.
Speaker: But I'll be out in that game.
Speaker: Who even is on the Houston Rock?
Speaker: Because y'all got rid of Christian Woods.
Speaker: They got your boy.
Speaker: They got...
Speaker: What's his name?
Speaker: Dylan... Dylan Brooks.
Speaker: Yeah, Dylan Brooks.
Speaker: And they got... He got stalked by Steph Curry.
Speaker: You saw what he did to him?
Speaker: That was horrible.
Speaker: Oh, my goodness.
Speaker: That was horrible.
Speaker: After he was just talking crap.
Speaker: That's crazy.
Speaker: That is crazy.
Speaker: Hey, but, you know, that's his thought process.
Speaker: That's what he thinks he needs to do in order to, you know, play his A game, so... I guess so.
Speaker: Well...
Speaker: Maybe when the tournament gets a little deeper, we can.
Speaker: What's tomorrow's games?
Speaker: So tonight is.
Speaker: What's going on with the Grizzlies?
Speaker: They 0-6?
Speaker: Yeah, they are.
Speaker: No jaw.
Speaker: We suspended, remember?
Speaker: I hear trying to pull pistols.
Speaker: So we got a couple options, you know, because the NBA all week.
Speaker: It ain't like.
Speaker: Let's see what's for Monday.
Speaker: Monday, so tomorrow we got Suns, Pistons, Warriors, Cavs, Mavericks.
Speaker: Monday night, Warriors, Pistons, Suns, Pacers, Heat Lakers.
Speaker: Pelicans, Nuggets.
Speaker: I'd rather do Heat Lakers, but... I ain't playing that.
Speaker: The Heat is 2-4.
Speaker: So...
Speaker: Alright, we'll do Pelicans in a second.
Speaker: But I need the points, though.
Speaker: I need the points.
Speaker: I'll let you get Denver.
Speaker: Oh, okay.
Speaker: What's the points?
Speaker: Let me see what the spread is.
Speaker: Because ESPN ain't showing the points.
Speaker: Pelicans versus Denver.
Speaker: good ticket well in denver it's like ten dollars to get in the game uh denver's a five and a half point favorite i'll give you three though i'm not taking the whole five uh give me a five bro why
Speaker: You got faith in Zion.
Speaker: That's your boy.
Speaker: Nah.
Speaker: You know, he's going to be trying smoking some weed and getting the munchies and you know, he let it eat.
Speaker: So I don't know.
Speaker: They're thinner up there.
Speaker: I got you.
Speaker: I'll give you the five.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: I'll take the five.
Speaker: I'll bet a bottle on the five.
Speaker: I'm nice to him.
Speaker: Y'all.
Speaker: I gave him the five.
Speaker: He don't need any.
Speaker: I'll probably still don't.
Speaker: I,
Speaker: I don't need the five, but I gave him the five.
Speaker: You know what I mean?
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: What the hell ever.
Speaker: You was trying to take it on.
Speaker: There was one game you was trying to get the point spread.
Speaker: I don't remember that.
Speaker: Yeah, I'm going to play flashbacks.
Speaker: I don't remember that.
Speaker: But all right, y'all.
Speaker: So we got to hear this.
Speaker: But we hope you enjoyed this week's episode.
Speaker: We hope you guys have been enjoying the season.
Speaker: You know, we are halfway through.
Speaker: So we appreciate you guys.
Speaker: And you guys have a good week.
Speaker: Any last words?
Speaker: uh as much as we harp on it it is something major to us please please self-improvement is going to set you apart in life and it's gonna like even if it's something small making t-shirts selling candy something please go out and do that because you never know what something so simple
Speaker: what opportunities can be from it.
Speaker: You know, some people are out there looking for people that are grinders and always out there trying to better themselves.
Speaker: It's like a magnet.
Speaker: As soon as you start, it's something that you just like, you're going to grasp people that like-minded or people out there that, you know, want that.
Speaker: Um, but as always positive mindsets make positive outcomes.
Speaker: This is the forever rich podcast.
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Speaker: Deuces.
Speaker: Peace out, y'all.
Speaker: Have a good week.
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